Chris Pine Quotes
My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any - but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.
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Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.
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You name him. I beat him.
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My work shows how important it is that independent researchers should have access to data so that government statistics can be checked and so that the democratic debate within India can be informed by the different interpretations of different scholars.
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At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.
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My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.
